Viola Davis Quotes
There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
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Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
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Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.
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If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.
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There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.
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There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
